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We analyze quantum fluctuation effects at the onset of charge or spin density wave order in twodimensional metals with an incommensurate 2kF wave vector connecting a single pair of hot spots on the Fermi surface. We compute the momentum and frequency dependence of the fermion selfenergy near the hot spots to leading order in a fluctuation expansion (one loop). Non-Fermi liquid behavior with anomalous frequency scaling and a vanishing quasi particle weight is obtained. The momentum dependence yields a divergent renormalization of the Fermi velocity and a flattening of the Fermi surface near the hot spots. Going beyond the leading order calculation we find that the one-loop result is not self-consistent. We show that any momentum-independent self-energy with a non-Fermi liquid frequency exponent wipes out the peak of the polarization function at the 2kF wave vector, and thus destroys the mechanism favoring 2kF density waves over those with generic wave vectors. However, a 2kF density wave quantum critical point might survive in presence of a sufficiently flat renormalized Fermi surface.

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